Options

1. Meeting Web Site 
2. Meeting Viewer

VShow LE uses a Web site to host meetings. If you software license includes a hosting service from a provider, you can select "Choose a hosting service" in Edit/Options/Meeting Web Site. Click "Verify Login" to make sure the hosting service is configured properly.

Depending on your software license, you may be allowed to use your own Web site for hosting meetings. To use your own web site, you will need to select "Use my Web site" and enter your FTP account information. VShow LE uses the FTP account to create meeting rooms on your Web site. Your Web site must support FTP and PHP in order to host meetings.

Follow these steps to create a profile for your Web site:

1. Click the "Add Profile" button in "Options/Web Site/Use my Web site" to create a new profile.
2. Create a meeting directory on your Web site to host meetings using your Web site's administration tools or FTP. For Apache Web servers, you can set the directory's permissions to 755 (read/write by owner and group). For Windows IIS servers, you need to set the user permissions following the descriptions here.
3. Enter the URL of the meeting directory to VShow. The URL should begin with http:// or https://
4. Enter an FTP account that you will used to upload program files to the meeting directory. Enter the meeting directory path and make sure the path matches the meeting directory URL.
5. Use the default settings unless they don't work.

If the meeting directory is a protected by a password, you should include the username and password in the URL as in

http://username:password@mysite.com/meetings/

You can create a FTP profile for each FTP account you have. You can also save an account to an FTP file by clicking the "Save profile" icon. You can load the account information from the file by clicking the "Import profile" button.

Click "Verify Login" to make sure the FTP account information is correct. VShow also performs checks to make sure your Web site is set up to host Persony meetings. If you encounter errors during the checks, make sure that:

1. Your FTP account allows you to create/modify/delete files
2. The FTP directory you choose exists and is not protected from writing
3. The FTP directory is accessible by your Web server
4. The URL you enter links to the FTP directory you choose
5. Your Web site supports PHP and allows file uploads with PHP (see Set Up Web Site)
6. PHP scripts are allowed to create/modify/delete files in the FTP directory (see Set Up Windows Server user permissions.)

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The Meeting Viewer is a Flash player that an attendee interacts with in a meeting. You can apply your own logo and select a background picture for the Viewer.

To use your own logo in the Viewer, click "Options" under the Meeting menu and select the "Meeting Viewer" tab. Check "Display custom logo" and select a logo file from your computer. The logo file must be a JPEG file and the recommended size is 116 x 30 pixels. The logo will be automatically resized if it is of a different size.

If a background picture is selected, the Viewer will show the picture when no shared contents are displayed. The background picture typically depicts a conference room with lights on or off depending on if a meeting is in progress. The Viewer may zoom into a whiteboard or a screen in the background picture when a whiteboard or a screen sharing session is started.

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